Apparatus for warming sponge, raising bread, &amp;c.



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APPARATUS FOR WARMING SPONGE, RAISING BREAD, 8L0. (Application filed'Feb. 9. 1900.) (No Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT Gretna.

RICHARD E; PEDIGO, OF CHARITON, IOWVA.

APPARATUS FOR WARMING SPONGE, RAISING BREAD, 80C.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 656,126, dated August 14, 1900.

Appllcatlon filed February 9, 1900. Serial No. 4,618. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, RICHARD E. PEDIGO, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chariton, in the county of Lucas and State of Iowa, have invented a new and useful Apparatus for Warming Sponge, Raising Bread, &c., of which the following is a specification.

My object is to provide an apparatus specially adapted for warming and raising dough for making bread. In many places there is no fire kept over night in kitchens, and consequently in many instances the sponge while mixed at night to undergo the process of leav ening preparatory to kneading becomes too cold and does not rise during the night and for lack of warmth good bread cannot be made.

My invention consists in the construction, arrangement, and combination of separable parts, as hereinafter set forth, pointed out in my claim, and illustrated in the a'ccompanying drawings, in Which- Figure 1 is a vertical central sectional view showing a lamp-chamber having a fixed defiector in its top portion and a removable lamp in its bottom and a warming-chamber adapted for inclosing and supporting a vessel containing dough over the open-topped lampchambendetachably connected with the lampchamber, as required for practical use. Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view on the line a: a: of Fig. 1 looking downward. Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view of the lower portion of the lamp-chamber, showing the hinged door and means for retaining a movable lamp in the center of the bottom.

The letters a designate the four wooden uprights of a rectangular frame, fixed at their lower ends to a wooden bottom I) and connected at their tops by cross-pieces c. A deflector d, made of sheet metal, is fixed to the bottom edges of two of the parallel cross-pieces c by means of Wires f, as shown in Fig. 1, or in any suitable way in such a manner that it will distribute heat that rises from a lamp placed on the bottom I) of the lamp-chamber. Spring-clasps g, fixed on the bottom b, retain a movable lamp in position,as shown in Fi 1, and around the frame'is fixed a wall 73, preferably colored canvas or other suitable light woven fabric,to produce the open-topped lamp-chamber.

7c is the wooden bottom of the warmingchamber, preferably circular and larger in diameter than the lamp-chamber, and to the circumference of this bottom is fixed a wall 121, preferably made of light sheet metal. The bottom It has a central opening coinciding with the open top of the lamp-chamber, and over said opening are fixed wires n, adapted to support a vessel placed thereon in such a manner that heat rising from the lamp-chamber will envelop the bottom and outside of the vessel, as required, to warm sponge or dough in the vessel. Cleats n, fixed to the under side of the bottom it, engage the exterior of the top of the lampchamber, and one or more dowel-pins r, fixed in said bot-tom, enter corresponding holes in the top of the cross-pieces c of the lamp-chamber frame, as required, to connect the warming-chamber with the lamp-chamber. Hooks s, pivoted to the lamp-chamber, engage screw-eyes s, fixed in the bottom 70, as required, to detachably fasten the warming-chamber on top of the lamp-chamber, as shown in Fig. 1 and as required for practical use. Dotted lines in the 4 warming-chamber indicate a vessel supported upon the fixed wires n.

It is obvious that by opening the door It and placing a lamp in the lamp-chamber heat may be generated therein to circulate around a vessel placed in the warming-chamber from night until morning, as required, to aid in the process of leavening dough and keeping it warm to prepare it for kneading and adding flour thereto to produce loaves.

Having thus described the construction and combination of the separable chambers and the manner of using the complete apparatus, the practical utility of my invention will be understood by persons familiar with making bread.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The lamp-chamber consisting of a rectangular wooden frame, a Wooden bottom and wooden cross-pieces at the top and a canvas cover or wall fixed around the outside of the frame, a metal deflector fixed in the central ing the two chambers, arranged and comtop portion of the lamp-chamber, a door in binecl as shown and described for the pur- IO one of the sides of the frame, and a warming poses stated.

chamber consisting of a \roolen bottom hav- RICHARD E PEDIGO. mg a central opening and wires fixed across said opening and. a sheet-metal Wall fixed to \Vitnesses:

the circumference of the bottom, cleats and I. N. BOWEN,

dowel-pins and hooks and eyes for connect- F. M. COFFMAN. 

